It works great if when you are downloading the deb file, you tell puppy to open the .deb file with petget instead of saving it.

Do the same for your teamviewerstart.pet
All goes well.

This worked for me on lazYpup.5.28.4 and lighthouse pup 4.43

I found out where I went wrong. I downloaded the deb file instead. When I clicked on it, instead of installing it where it should go, it extracted it to a new directory in the download directory. That's why your teamviewerstart.pet could not find it.

I went back and found my download deb file.This time I right clicked to get the "open with" menu. I was hoping that petget would be listed there. But on my puppy, Lighthouse pup 4.43 it wasn't. However, when I finally found petget, I was able to properly open the saved deb file. Then your teamviewerstart.pet worked like a charm.

Is there an easy way to get petget on the open with menu?

I have lots of different puppy flavors. I will try teamviewerstart.pet on them as well.

Question: have you made teamviewerstart.pet so it might be continue to work with future versions of teamviewer or will it only work with version 7? [ assuming that teamviewer doesn't make too many changes to their program. ]

it should work with future versions of team viewer, but you will need to alter the script slightly..... navigate to /usr/bin/teamviewer right click on it and open as text.... you'll see this

Code:

#!/bin/sh

LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libpuppygc.so" teamviewer7

so when teamviewer8 comes out change the 7 to 8 (or whatever the new binary is called)

you can use iguleders pet to run other programs that refuse to run as root. (just change 'teamviewer7' to the name of the binary you want to run)

as for the default .deb action with your browser. in my firefox i do get a choice of whether to extract or use petget, i guess it may be different for each browser. anyway just saving the deb and then clicking on it installs it. you'll also have a copy of it then.

This is important to me because my ISP [Virgin] tech assistance routinely use Teamviewer, normally within Windows [they don't support Linux], but I no longer have Windows installed.
So I'm hoping [next time] to be able to tell them I have teamviewer available within Puppy, and have them agree to go ahead and use it.

i tried using teamviewer 8 but i cant connect between my host computer and remote computer (this linux computer). i read on the teamviewer 8 forums that this is a common problem on teamviewer 8, so i have decided to downgrade back to teamviewer 7 and use the anti-root pet file. but it didnt work for me. so now I am at a loss. any other ideas on using teamviewer 7 or is there a teamviwer 7 sfs anywhere?

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